Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ...abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those days, the blag slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill. Not enough to mar the coun...tryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers between the green.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
GOETHE, raised o'er joy and strife, Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,... And brought Olympian wisdom down To court and mar, to gown and town, Stooping, his finger wrote in clay The open secret of to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But whether or not a man was asked To mar the love of two... By harboring woe in the bridal house, The bridegroom wished he knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored th...ough it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »